The bottom line is you can be compassionate about your land lording practice; but you have to be firm and stick up for yourself and your business and not let folks take you to the cleaners.

Finding a reasonable and reliable property manager and a solid weekly cleaner is key.

Never had to leave my office, why would I deal in dirt, paper is much cleaner?

So for a better appointed, cleaner place, it can be competitive for most folks, who are going to have a small hotel room where they can just walk around the bed, and a bathroom.2) Competitive space - It's not much smaller than a small bedroom at a hotel around here.

This way - he can not fight the initial agreement of title held by the attorney and not filed on his behalf. it would make things "cleaner" for you if it ever got to that point.

As I became a realtor though, I realized I needed a cleaner cut to be more successful.

@Paul Sandhu I have worked in electronics for years and always have a bottle of electric contact cleaner for situations like this.

You may have to replace the carpet, we've gone so far as removing carpet and painting floor to ceiling with Kilz primer and still brought in a professional with Ozone Cleaners to get the smell out.

A cleaner way to handle this kind of situation would be for the tenant to pay the rent in full when due (December 1 or at least according to the timeline on the Pay Rent or Quit notice) and for you to provide compensation back to them for the inconvenience and loss of use of the property for the 24 hours.

So dont ask a dry cleaner how to fix a ipad....go direct to the source.